TritonAI Tutor Guide
How to set up and tune the TritonAI Tutor in your Canvas course.
You control two things about your tutor: its knowledge base, the course materials it can retrieve from, and its system prompt, the written instructions it follows in every conversation with a student. These guides cover both.
To get to your tutor, open your Canvas course and click TritonAI Tutor in the course navigation on the left side of the page.
Set Up Your Tutor
Update the knowledge base
Choose which Canvas materials, Google Drive folders, and websites the tutor can use.
How-to · 7 steps
Update the system prompt
Pick a preset teaching style, then open the Advanced box and edit the tutor's instructions.
How-to · 6 steps
Write an effective system prompt
What to include, how to phrase it, and how to test it before students use it.
12 best practices · 6 test scenarios · sample prompt
More Help
- Tutor FAQ: what the tutor indexes, how lock dates work, how quizzes are handled, and what students see.
- Instructional AI program: program overview, pilot results, and how to request a tutor for your course.
Questions about setup or your tutor's behavior? Email AI-Pilots@ucsd.edu.